Advertising Age’s Kate Kaye caught something this week that startled me: …despite the fact that he continues to campaign hard in California, which holds its delegate-rich primary next week, the Sanders campaign appears to have brought...
Quick thought: when advocates, fundraisers and organizers talk about the “ladder of engagment”, we usually speak in terms of “moving people up.” I.e., we’re getting our supporters to take higher-value actions over time...
Chris Cillizza called it a declaration of war: yesterday, Bernie Sanders endorsed DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s primary opponent in her race to retain her House seat. Today, he followed it up with a fundraising email asking supporters...
Check out last week’s top 10 8 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns (only 8 this week b/c of a slight technical glitch). Highlights: Hillary loves Kentucky (and a good pantsuit), Trump loves a “bearded...
Hey kids, let’s celebrate the election year by digging into the sordid past of Epolitics.com, resurrecting posts from 2008 and 2012 for a semi-regular Throwback Thursday feature. First up, that time Obama and Clinton fought over my...
Last weekend’s Nevada delegate-selection dust-up seems to have tested the patience of many on the Left who’d been sympathetic to Sen. Sanders but who weren’t full-on Berners. The Daily 202 rounds up some high points from the...
Update: A reader writes in to point out that Trump DOES have a data operation whether he knows it or not, and it’s true that his campaign’s purchased voter information from L2. But, we don’t know how they’re really using...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! This week: Bernie loves his crowds, Hillary loves Chelsea and everyone loves yer mom. Also, note the Clinton video from a town hall discussion in...
As reported in Gizmodo yesterday: Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending†news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! The data is via our friends at CrowdTangle, and remember that these aren’t the top-performing posts in ABSOLUTE terms, since that would...